[plug] PHP and Hashing

[Simon Marko]

Chris Watt wrote:

>Hi Guys,
>
>I'm in the process of setting up a website for a local business that
>is paranoid abut the security on it.  While I usually use sha1 for my
>encryption, I'm curious as to whether or not sha2 has made its way
>into the base set of php functions yet.
>
>If so, what is the functionname('string') for it?
>  
>
Hi Chris,
While not strictly a PHP internal function, there is a post in the
comments at http://au.php.net/sha1 about how you can use an external
SHA2 program (I haven't tried this, but IMHO it is a kludge)
You could also try the IRC Channel #php
::SimonM::
PS: I'm interested if you find a good way of implementing this, let me know